youtube kills productivity, use a good solution (instead)

[_richard]

i would recommend to offer an alternative to youtube at least for workshop/learning videos

youtube disrupts the video every few minutes and kills productivity/focus

my impression is that youtube places advertisements often when in the video an important point is announced / stressed. this really makes the learning content overall bad.

there are alternatives to youtube that offer further advantages, like (probably most well known) vimeo.

another option would be to offer the videos for direct download (also better for train rides, ....).

if there is an important reason for using youtube it is OK to use it also, but a good quality option should come first.

further youtube is blocked in some countries, relying on youtube keeps some potential customers away. the following picture shows the aspect not totally accurate (yt is not blocked in germany as i can confirm - another example for google quality ...)

[AScha.3]

>youtube disrupts the video every few minutes 

So you have no ad-blocker running.

I have (on chrome/Linux) uBlock origin lite , try it. (no more ads...)

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For me : i prefer a step by step tutorial, so almost never using videos (except : if there is no other source...).

Just like this:

https://stefanfrings.de/stm32/stm32f3.html

[_richard]

well, one can do that and as a software developer i know about these things. 

but i prefer to a) not always cut corners for my benefit and b) take action to make the world a better place. at the end quality has to be paid - we all work for money - and it has not to be super expensive (vimeo pricing looks ok).

[TDK]

This is silly. People searching for STM32 learning materials are much more likely to look on Youtube than some other niche video provider. There are numerous options to get rid of ads on Youtube, several legitimate.